Example sentences for: urbane

How can you use “urbane” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Different groups, ranging from urbane students to cliques involved in drug smuggling and prostitution, pepper their language with English or English-based expressions.

  • Monet, ever respectful of his audience (and potential buyers), never indulged in the harsh jokes of his urbane contemporaries.

  • He is urbane and sophisticated, and the model of gentlemanliness and charm.

  • The modern settlement has an urbane gentility with an old-town of grand Italianate mansions linked by cobbled walkways.

  • In Richard Conniff's urbane account of travelers' putdowns of some of the great and not so great cities of the world [XIV,3], he quotes a splendid passage from Dr. Samuel Johnson's poem on London, which culminates with the words, “Here falling houses thunder on your head, / And here a female atheist talks you dead.”


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